FDA approves period suppression pill

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But obviously not a drug that could be called abortifacient, since not even the slightest possibilty of conception ever existed.

John
 
I may have been wrong on my previous statement. A more detailed article leaves me wondering.

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john1863 said:
But obviously not a drug that could be called abortifacient, since not even the slightest possibilty of conception ever existed.

John
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Yeah, I think you were wrong there, no big deal.
If you mean it isnt abortifacient because there is no ovulation, this may be the pill that is the “very low dose” Birth control pill. In that case, since it is such low dose, there is a higher chance of breathrough ovulation and so it has a higher chance of having the abortifacicent effect. or maybe I am wrong.
 
More irony. In a world where people want to buy “organic” milk to avoid getting a tiny residual byproduct of synthetic hormones, they willingly take a pill with hundreds of times the amount of synthetic hormones and wash it down with said pure milk!

Why don’t people think things through?
 
It’s horrible. I just cannot understand how women can use ABC. The side effects are greater than the advantages… too many to name but as an ex-user, I had many horrible side effects and let me tell you they are not worth it at all. Especially the one that it can cause permanent infertility…
 
A lot of women find their monthly flow to be inconvenient, so if you’re going to use ABC anyway, you might as well use one that relieves you of it. Also, it isn’t really natural for women to have so many periods in their lifetime anyway, as it was, in the past, more the norm for women to be pregnant or breast feeding far more frequently than they do today.

I think it is true that we really won’t know long-term effects until 20 or so years have passed.
 
Really makes no sense. The article mentioned “Unplanned, breakthrogh bleeding that can last up to 5 days.” Sounds like a period to me! And I’d rather know when it was coming! Even with out NFP, the vast majority of women can plan for their cycles.

In all my life I have only known a handful of women who have such terrible cycles (cramps, etc) that they would need to medicate with a prescription. And even of those, I bet advice for Fertility, Cycles, and Nutrion would have helped them more!
 
But not every woman will have the breakthrough bleeding, and for some of those who do, it will go away after 4 or 5 months.

A lot of women athletes and just active women (runners for instance) simply find it an inconvenience. For them, it’s not about the cramping or whatnot, just the inconvenience.
 
I don’t have a period so I can’t say how difficult it is, however, it’s a natural biological function. As we’ve learned time and time again when we try to arrest or change these natural biological function to suit us the consequences are not good. I’m wagering that in a short while down the road this drug is found to cause cancer or other serious disease.
 
yessisan said:
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What an atrocity!! Don’t they think of what this can do to a woman’s body???
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No… They’re thinking of all the money they’re going to make.

It’s impossible to think of this as anything other than poison that some unfortunate women will put into their bodies to disrupt their natural bodily processes.

An FDA that truly had womens’ interests at heart would not allow this to be marketed.
 
gnjsdad said:
No… They’re thinking of all the money they’re going to make.

It’s impossible to think of this as anything other than poison that some unfortunate women will put into their bodies to disrupt their natural bodily processes.

An FDA that truly had womens’ interests at heart would not allow this to be marketed.
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But millions of women take birth control every single day! Still others get shots & patches etc. Only a small fraction of women will develop the complications. It is probably safer than just about any other medicine out there, including aspirin. This pill is no better and no worse than any other form of oral contraception. The period that women get while on the pill is largely artificial anyway, so not having it shouldn’t be that big of a deal. Plus, historically, women have not had as many periods as women today have (they hit puberty later and had more pregnancies as well as breastfed longer).
 
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But millions of women take birth control every single day! Still others get shots & patches etc.
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As you probably would guess, I am opposed to these other forms of artificial contraception as well. Because there are a large variety of these products available is no reason to greet yet another one.
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a_cermak:
Only a small fraction of women will develop the complications.
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The FDA has in the past recalled widely-sold drugs and medications based on the mere threat of adverse complications. For products like this, however, you’re saying a “small fraction” of women developing complications is acceptable. I’ve always believed that the FDA is far along in the service of sexual liberation and that if some women become casualties of the sexual liberationist agenda, then that is the price that must be paid.
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a_cermak:
It is probably safer than just about any other medicine out there, including aspirin.
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I dispute your characterization of this product as “medicine”. Real medicine restores the body’s natural functions to health. Real medicine does not disrupt natural bodily functions.
 
:mad: This is SO COMPLETELY UTTERLY STUPID! :mad: If people hate femininity so much as to stop their periods…why don’t they just cut out the whole thing and make themselves neutered. :mad:

(Oh…wait…Saint Paul did this argument once already!) :rolleyes:
 
a_cermak said:
A lot of women athletes and just active women (runners for instance) simply find it an inconvenience. For them, it’s not about the cramping or whatnot, just the inconvenience.
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That was really the first thing I thought about. While I’m sure I period is inconvenient for an athlete, amenorrhea is an important sign. It would be perferrable to at least have that sign, than to keep on a regimen that will lead health problems, such as eating disorders and osteoporosis. While sometimes athletes aren’t the best of recognizing or wanting to recognize signs, at least when getting a physical it’ll throw up some big red flags.
 
There may be other reasons that a woman would use the pill to suppress their periods.

For example, someone I know who has a disability uses birth control for this reason, because she is trying to be charitable and modest, and doesn’t want her personal assistant to have to deal with the intimate difficulties menstural bleeding would cause for her.

Just because some people abuse painkillers or anti-depressants, or overdose in order to commit suicide, does that mean we should ban them too?
 
DL82 said:
There may be other reasons that a woman would use the pill to suppress their periods.

For example, someone I know who has a disability uses birth control for this reason, because she is trying to be charitable and modest, and doesn’t want her personal assistant to have to deal with the intimate difficulties menstural bleeding would cause for her.

Just because some people abuse painkillers or anti-depressants, or overdose in order to commit suicide, does that mean we should ban them too?
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Who has called for a ban? Caution and prudence, for this given situation, seems to be most of the messages here. (Granted, with the given Catholic teaching on ABC, the subject of birth control pills will find many propontents, but Catholic teaching only will hold so much sway with the FDA, which I’m sure most will live with though will make their protest known.) As far as pain killers and anti-depressants, caution and prudence should be used with those too.
 
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